Record-breaking flooding in April was a reminder for lawmakers, dam safety advocates and engineers of the vulnerabilities ...

Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

Civil engineer Roman P. Wengler was a “disruptor” in the world of dam building long before that was a word for an innovator. Wengler, who died in Houston on Aug. 8 at 95, was a global leader in the ...

When the Platte and Missouri river systems could not drain the rain and ice from the "bomb cyclone" weather event in northeast Nebraska in March 2019, the Spencer Dam on the Niobrara River was swept ...

Oklahoma City’s Overholser Dam suffers from floodgates that won't open, concrete buttresses that are cracked and support beams that are crumbling. If the dam failed during a record rainstorm, the ...

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HIGHEST LEVEL OF STATE SCRUTINY. THE PITTSFIELD MILL DAM IS A CENTURY OLD, AND SO FAR IT HAS WITHSTOOD THE TEST OF TIME AND WATER. THE STATE CLASSIFIES IT AS A HIGH-RISK DAM BECAUSE IF IT FAILED, ...

The William B. Hoyt II Visitor Center at the Mount Morris Dam and Recreation Area opened to the public on May 1 for its 2026 ...

Dams often appear stable until they're not. Quicksand, mainly known as a phenomena found in old movies, has a special role in the dam-building process that makes it a constant struggle for engineers.